Curator Sylvia Yount details three extraordinary Native American artworks from the Charles and Valerie Diker Collection that were recently installed in The American Wing.

Publisher and Editor in Chief Mark Polizzotti highlights several of the Editorial Department's recent publications that are currently available for purchase or digital download.

Associate Curator Elizabeth Cleland recounts the beauty of the medieval castles the group toured and the memorable gastronomic treats they ate during their trip to Wales.

Electronic Resources and Instructional Services Librarian Deborah Vincelli highlights a finely bound travel book from the 1820s.

Curator Tim Husband reveals the origins and structure of two tarot decks featured in the exhibition The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430–1540.

Metadata and Collections Librarian William Blueher highlights some of the recent activity on Watson Library's brand-new Instagram account.

Teen Advisory Group Member Maleficent Twemlow (a.k.a. Anna) discusses the trick photograph Leap into the Void and the two images that were combined to produce it.

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is so much more than just paintings, sculptures, medals, and drawings. The layout and gorgeous lighting highlight an exhibition that combines art and history with a study of society, location, and symbolism.

Stephanie Post recounts the Neighborhood Circulating Exhibitions program, which showcased objects from the Met's collection across New York City.

Former High School Intern Gwen W. discusses how she uses photography to bring her subjects and herself closer to art.

Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)

...numerous masterpieces of woodblock printing, many of which are nearly impossible to find in such fine condition today...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Master of the Barbo Missal

"...The Met takes a major step in presenting masterpieces of Judaica..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Man Ray

This remarkably seductive album of photogravures is an exquisite example of his legacy as America's greatest Surrealist photographer...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Hendrick Avercamp

"...His finished drawings are much rarer, and the present one is among his best of an imaginary landscape..."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page

...these very pistols spectacularly confirmed that the French were then unsurpassed in their mastery of the gunmaker's art...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Irving Penn

"The resulting portraits–landmarks in the history of twentieth century photography–are a brilliant update of some 300 years’ interest by artists in producing pictures of small tradesmen, or petit métiers."

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Master of the Furies

When this compelling, transformative statuette of Saint Sebastian became available, it was an opportunity not to be missed, as the Museum has nothing comparable...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

This is one of the most elegant and best-preserved porphyry vessels to have survived from classical antiquity...

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

Cartier

The journey of the emerald in this brooch from Colombia, where it originated in its natural state, to seventeenth-century India and back to New York underscores the abiding and universal attraction of great gems.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.

With the daring amalgamation of the whimsical, exotic, and macabre, the sculptural details on this ewer brilliantly show off the distinctive Portuguese interpretation of Renaissance style.

MetCollects introduces highlights of works of art acquired by the Met each year through gifts and purchases.